Real Madrid: 3 reasons not to overreact to the loss against Sheriff

Real Madrid’s attackers played well

Secondly, our attack was much better than the one against Villarreal in LaLiga. Honestly speaking, yes it was. I said this before too, Villarreal looked very compact and composed while playing against Real Madrid.

Sheriff did more or less the same job. They just sit back, hit Real on the break and it literally worked for them. But there was one improvement in this match. Our attack looked much better. Real Madrid created much more chances than they did against Villarreal. They had a total of 31 shots attempted of which 11 were on target.

But again, Real Madrid was unlucky in front of the goal post. Vinicius got the chance to score, Hazard got the chance to score, Nacho got the chance to score, Valverde got the chance to score, and Jovic got the chance to score. But the only one who got the team the breakthrough was the very own captain- Karim Benzema.

None of these players I mentioned (other than King Karim) could get us the breakthrough, or the winner. Why? Their defenders and their goalkeeper were spot on. But the positive is that- One, almost every player got at least 1 chance to score, Two, the attack was not always predictable.

Unlike the last match where I mentioned that the attacking tactics were the problem as all the attack was just by crossing into the box, here the players not only fancied their chances by long shots but also attacked from almost every area on the pitch.

Eden Hazard was the key to creativity. No matter how much you try to disagree, deep down you know this too. He hasn’t had an impact on the game, as great as in this match in a very long time.

So, we can take this as another positive from the game.